Is this about the exercises Russia is conducting? If so, they've been doing these every year since 2012. It's pretty much standard disaster preparedness fare, although some people have take the most recent one as a response to our debates. It is not.

Putin's rhetoric, if certain "navy engineer says he saw flying saucers in Antarctica" sources are to be believed, is nonsense. If our justification for a missile defense system in Romania is protection from Iranian missiles, that gives him a political opportunity to save face and he should not cry about it being a great lie, because let's face it: Russia has invaded one of our allies (Georgia) and the neighbor of our NATO allies (Ukraine) in very recent memory. Putin wants his buffer zones. He can cry about the US shoring up civilization's defenses against his backwards-ass moves or he can stop invading countries we ostensibly care about. Either way, he can get fucked.

If anything, all of this is proof that isolationism went the way of the dodo. We are in the time of the American Empire, and it is up to us to decide whether we cede that title to Russia or China, or hold on to it for dear life.